Skills have become the currency of competitiveness, but most organisations are still running on outdated role-based systems that slow them down. The convergence of Talent, Skills, and Technology is creating a new enterprise advantage: one where skills power business agility, internal mobility accelerates growth, and employees can pursue careers that match their ambition, not just their job title. This isn’t an HR project. It’s a business transformation.

Forward-thinking organisations are building skills-first models underpinned by AI-driven Talent Intelligence and internal talent marketplaces that enable fluid movement of talent, faster execution, and a more empowered workforce. The result? Better allocation of skills to work, higher productivity, reduced hiring costs, and a culture where people can grow with the business, not out of it. This session will unpack how leaders are redesigning work, talent, and capability-building into a unified skills-powered ecosystem that drives both human and business performance.

Discussion points

Build a Living Skills Framework that Drives Value: Move from static job architectures to dynamic, real-time skills intelligence that aligns capability to business priorities.
Turn intelligence into action: Use AI agents and matching to design roles, recommend learning, surface diverse internal candidates, and integrate into existing HR Tech stacks.
Convert Skills Data Into Business Outcomes: Translate skills visibility into action—workforce planning, smarter investments, upskilling, staffing, succession, and productivity gains.

Panelists

Jason Bloomfield, Global Head of People Change & TA Transformation, Ericsson
Danielle Strazzo, Global VP People Operations, BD
Loïc Michel, Co-Founder & CEO, 365Talents
Julie Stone, Group VP and Chief Learning Officer, TTEC
[Moderated by] Julia Johnson, Vice President HR, IBM
[Event Chair]: Chris Rainey, CEO & Co-Founder at HR Leaders

This panel is part of the 2nd Annual Global AI HR Summit 2025. It brought together 100+ world-class speakers across 16 different panels who shared actionable insights, practical takeaways and how they are using AI in HR. View all Sessions:

Panel #1 Watch here: Workforce Innovation in the Age of AI: The CHRO’s New Role
Panel #2 Watch here: Work Re-Architected: Redesigning Jobs, Roles, and Skills in the Age of AI
Panel #3 Watch here: How to Turn Skills into Strategy: Orchestrating Talent, Tech & Marketplaces for Enterprise Impact
Panel #4 Watch here: Reimagining the HR Tech Stack to Power People, Performance, and AI at Scale
Panel #5 Watch here: The Workforce Intelligence Advantage: How to Predict, Plan, and Perform Using People Analytics
Panel #6 Watch here: How Future of Work Executives are Connecting the Dots: Data, Technology and People
Panel #7 Watch here: Re‑Imagining, Re‑Building, Re‑Doing: How to Design Work for Human and AI
Panel #8 Watch here: The Perfect Pair: How Chief HR Officers and Chief AI Officers are Shaping the Future of Work
Panel #9 Watch here: From Transactional to Transformational: The Future of Employee Experience in the AI Era
Panel #10 Watch here: Reimagining Workforce Design: Aligning Human Strengths with AI at Scale
Panel #11 Watch here: Human + Machine: Inside the C-Suite Alliance Re-Architecting Work for the AI Age
Panel #12 Watch here: Intuition vs Intelligence: Preserving Culture and the Human Touch in an Algorithmic & Agentic AI World
Panel #13 Watch here: Driving AI Adoption Cross-Functionally Across the Workforce: The AI-Coached Enterprise
Panel #14 Watch here: Humans + AI Agents: The Strategic Transformation of Talent Acquisition
Panel #15 Watch here: Re-Architecting Work at Scale: Redesigning Jobs, Skills, and Organizations for the AI Age
Panel #16 Watch here: The Chief People Officer's Role in Enterprise AI Transformation